Desert Shorts (Canterbury University Press, 1999) - short story collection

Dog Breath (Mallinson Rendel, 1999) - short story collection for teenagers short-listed for
the 2000 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards

A Short History of Paradise (Penguin, 2005) - novel

I have appeared in The Best NZ Fiction, volumes 1, 2, 5 & 6, and I have won the Sunday Times Short
Story Competition twice. I have written for the NZ School Journals for over forty years;
I have judged several writing awards in New Zealand, and my book reviews have appeared in
The Dominion, The Evening Post, The Dompost, The New Zealand Herald, The Listener, Landfall and New Zealand Books.

I have received several Creative New Zealand project grants, and I was the 1999 writer-in-residence
at Canterbury University.

I believe the best - maybe the only - way to write is to begin writing, then get informed feedback
and keep on writing.